Good evening ladies and gentlemen, adjudicator and fellow debaters. The topic that the first affirmative speaker has already introduced is that we should abolish special youth wages. However, my team disagrees with this and we believe that we should keep the youth wages that our country already has.

Our team agrees with the definition the affirmative team presented.

As the first speaker, I, Sheryl George will be discussing the employment and educational problems we would in face in Australia if youth wages were abolished, I will also be speaking about the slippery slope of changing laws that affect young people. Our second speaker, Jeane, will speak about the economic effects of abolishing youth wages and the dangerous circumstances young people may be put into in to by employees seeking to exploit them. Our third speaker Judith will be summarizing our arguments and rebutting the opposition.

Before I start to elaborate on my topics, I’d like to point out some major flaws in the opposition’s arguments.

“sustaining distinct youth wages is truly a win-win situation" and my team here today would like to convince you that we should NOT abolsish youth wages

First, abolishing youth wages would take away the incentive that employers have to hire young people. Many employers seek out employees with previous experience, so that they don’t have to put in the time and money it takes to train new workers. Abolishing youth wages would completely take away the incentives those employers need to have in order to employ youths. An example of this scenario is Sweden. Part of the already economically troubled Eurozone, Sweden has youth unemployment rate of 24.2%, which is more than four times the average unemployment rate of 8%. It is not only unqualified young people who are jobless in Sweden, many highly qualified young men and women cannot get jobs because employers would rather hire older people with more experience than take the risk of hiring someone with...

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